Not quite true - they require that you not sell Steam keys for less than you do on Steam. They still don’t even stop you from doing giveaways or participating in bundles. It’s just that your typical prices on independent Steam key sales, for which they don’t even take a cut, can’t be lower than Steam prices. Also the seller sets all of these prices.

Given they’re footing the bill for indefinitely hosting the games supplied via those keys, that’s an entirely reasonable restriction.

This is coming from someone who is against capitalism and all IP law. The big problem with Steam imho is that Gabe Newell won’t live forever and when he’s gone the company could go public or go to some fail son who will tank it. I’m not even saying Gabe Newell is a great guy or an ethical billionaire, but he’s been remarkably consistent in keeping Steam’s business model running well.

Yeah, that’s absolutely fair, and it’s a bit snobby of me to get all up in arms about forgetting a formula - although it is high school level where I live. But to be handed the formula, informed that there’s an issue and still not fix it is the really hard part to wrap my head around, given it’s such a basic formula.

I guess I’m also remembering someone I knew who got a programming job off the back of someone else’s portfolio, who absolutely couldn’t program to save their life and revealed that to me in a glaring way when I was trying to help them out. It just makes me think of that study that was done that suggested that there might be a “programmer brain” that you either have or you don’t. They ended up costing that company a lot to my knowledge.

I’m really unsure if why or how is my bigger question.

Wait wait wait so… this person forgot the pythagorean theorem?

Like that is the most basic task. It’s d = sqrt((x1 - x2)^2 + (y1 - y2)^2), right?

That was off the top of my head, this person didn’t understand that? Do I get a job now?

I have seen a lot of programmers talk about how much time it saves them. It’s entirely possible it makes them very fast at making garbage code. One thing I’ve known for a long time us that understanding code is much harder than writing it, and so asking an LLM to generate your code sounds like it’s just creating harder work for you, unless you don’t care about getting it right.

The point of the state is to maintain one class’s domination over others, violence is just the means to achieving that. It’s not a good thing.

And not all armed resistance takes the form of open warfare.

Under a strong state one viable way of resisting the state is community defense. For instance the Black Panthers began open carrying to observe police doing traffic stops, because black men kept getting killed (edit: of course we know they still are).

The state’s response was weapons bans. That ban targetted the Black Panthers and was selectively enforced against them. This is where California got its reputation for banning guns. It was the state maintaining its ability to oppress people along class and racial lines.

So like… your answer is no.

Unironically yes.

Now are you going to answer what I’m saying or are you just bowing out of all the points you tried to raise and which I answered?

So sorry for assuming you were talking about the US when you talked about school shootings.

I come from a country like that too, but if you think police brutality doesn’t happen in your country then again: political bubble.

Go ahead, tell me what country you’re from and I’ll burst it for you.

I used to say the same thing about my country, Australia, where they’ve recently been imprisoning whistleblowers who expose clear government abuse.

There is no such thing as a state that can be trusted with violence. They always use it to oppress.

“Spreading”? It’s already spread.

Plus it’s kind of impossible to understand how you see police brutality and the way they responded to the George Floyd protests and think, “Yeah, these guys should be trusted with the only guns in existence.”

Like have you already forgotten about Uvalde? If the cops hadn’t been there to cower behind their cars and stop people rescuing their kids then less kids would’ve died.

So you completely accept the state’s monopoly on violence, and you also don’t think farmers should be allowed to shoot pests?

This is a statement made by someone who lives in a political and ecological bubble.

Ah dang, I got excited for a sec. There is a Blackberry Pi project but it’s just a Raspberry Pi in the form factor of a Blackberry.

The kinds of places that get touchscreen kiosks often have teenagers taking your order who are not paid or trained enough to give any shits about any of it. The touchscreen saves both of you from doing the worst part of the whole process.

This happened in Dwarf Fortress too

It’s almost like a society based on cooperation works better than a society based on competition.

Proof of stake is what it’s called, but then it’s even more of a ponzi scheme because you have to buy in. Like they’re literally recreating coconut island.

Also nobody seems to actually be doing it, possibly for exactly that reason. It’s just a green-washing promise of an idea.

Federation and crypto are two completely opposite philosophies of decentralisation.

Crypto is based on zero-trust, which sounds cool and edgy if you’re 15, but in practice it turns out that the people drawn to a zero trust system are untrustworthy. It’s not surprising that it’s full of Nazis.

Federation is designed around trust, which is the way our meatspace social networks actually work, and I think it’s the only reasonable way forward.

I can imagine a plugin system that gets submissions of hashes of specific frames - or just entire frames - when users play them, then checks those frames to detect which parts of the video are unique vs common, then automatically requests new frames to narrow down the timestamps and carve out the additions.

Probably wouldn’t take more than a handful of views across the entire network to get a pretty solid ad removal system. Even better it wouldn’t even rely on user input, which itself is already pretty fast. I have never encountered even the newest video that wasn’t already in the sponsorblock system.

Honestly this sounds like a fun project, I imagine it wouldn’t take the heroes that develop things like sponsorblock very long to figure it out. Plus they have spite on their side.

Edit: actually, rather than rely on randomised frame checks to find the collisions, have the clients submit frames then send frames out and ask clients to see if those frames appear in their videos. Then you very quickly determine which frames are unique.

I don’t know why you’d go with a crypto scheme if what you actually need is video.

Peertube is federated just like lemmy, so it doesn’t have to cook the planet to achieve decentralisation.

So much effort, dev time and resources just to fight users to make the experience worse and push them to alternatives to squeeze out the tiniest margin of extra ad money. Plus I’m sure this’ll be countered almost immediately. I’d be shocked if ad blockers took more than a few days to find a way to detect and neuter these ads.

This is some accelerated enshittification.

Firsf of all I agree with your point that it is all hallucination.

However I think a brain in a vat could confirm information about the world with direct sensors like cameras and access to real-time data, as well as the ability to talk to people and determine things like who was trustworthy. In reality we are brains in vats, we just have a fairly common interface that makes consensus reality possible.

The thing that really stops LLMs from being able to make judgments about what is true and what is not is that they cannot make any judgements whatsoever. Judging what is true is a deeply contextual and meaning-rich question. LLMs cannot understand context.

I think the moment an AI can understand context is the moment it begins to gain true sentience, because a capacity for understanding context is definitionally unbounded. Context means searching beyond the current information for further information. I think this context barrier is fundamental, and we won’t get truth-judging machines until we get actually-thinking machines.

Huh, well I was just guessing about the XBox thing to be honest, sounds like you know more about it.

Also the difference between the layouts wouldn’t be so infuriating if XBox and Switch didn’t have literally the exact opposite in both naming and functionality across both of the X/Y and A/B pairs.

I don’t know why though, but I adopt the Switch style much more easily than I flip back. It’s weird because the bottom button is always the easiest to press and you’d expect that to be the obvious ergonomic answer, but my brain has some weird preference for the other way.

This has got to settle into a convention sometime. I’d be interested to see if there’s any research into it.

Actually, I found this informal poll (in English which would skew the results). In playstation the western style is overwhelmingly favoured but Nintendo and XBox styles are about an even split:

https://www.resetera.com/threads/what-confirm-button-feels-the-most-natural-to-you-on-a-controller.149603/

I think it was to be similar to the XBox layout. I did wonder why the X was there, but never really asked.

It’s interesting because I’ve just recently learned the Japanese layout on Switch and it’s really sticky in my brain to the point that it’s taken over, so I’ve switched over on my PC controllers too. Except now games don’t know what to make of it, like Hollow Knight let me remap controls so button 2, which is B and on the bottom, is jump, and button 1 is A and on the right is spell. Now the menus behave the Japanese way, but also the game thinks that A is called B and B is called A because they were remapped and it assumes jump must be A and spell must be B, so now I need to ignore the button prompts in menus.

Also Bopl Battle lets you remap controls, but then it forces jump to be confirm no matter what, so you can have A for confirm and B for back in the main menu, but when you go into the game B becomes confirm and A becomes back. Me and my kids have bounced ourselves out of matches so many times it’s infuriating.